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Show HN: Find the most climate friendly meeting location

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Just enter the locations people will be traveling from. MLC then calculates the location, where the combined aircraft emissions are minimised. Based on data from the European Emissions Agency.

Show HN: Find the most climate friendly meeting location
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Re: Show HN: Find the most climate friendly meeting location

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This is a really neat tool, but I'm having a hard time imagining situations where it'd be all that useful, where people from substantially different locations all need to meet in person, but don't care where they're meeting. How often does that happen?

Am I missing something?

Re: Show HN: Find the most climate friendly meeting location

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first off thank you, anything even remotely down this road is the right direction.

as a UI bug, when I typed "ewr" or even "newark" it shows zero search results. strangely if i back off just one character on either then it does show newark liberty international airport. for some reason the search is penalizing you for finishing the string.

a second one, the show report button didnt work at all.

product suggestion: make the results a unique url that can be shared amongst coworkers planning an event. they should be able to edit it like a google doc to collaboratively update how many people are flying from what locations, and then everyone can reference the shared url to see the calculated result.

last thing, can you share some of the tech details behind how you made the globe/flight-visualizations?

Re: Show HN: Find the most climate friendly meeting location

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post #7

This is a really neat tool, but I'm having a hard time imagining situations where it'd be all that useful, where people from substantially different locations all need to meet in person, but don't care where they're meeting. How often does that happen? Am I missing something?

Remote-first companies encounter this problem all the time.

Re: Show HN: Find the most climate friendly meeting location

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post #7

This is a really neat tool, but I'm having a hard time imagining situations where it'd be all that useful, where people from substantially different locations all need to meet in person, but don't care where they're meeting. How often does that happen? Am I missing something?

I think for academic conferences, they typically choose a venue that changes every year. This could be used to aid in selecting a venue.
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